Good afternoon. You're listening to Gambling with an Edge now here your host Bob
Dancer and Richard. Good afternoon. Welcome to Gambling with an Edge on Bob
Dancer and I'm rich Our guest today is Jimmy Jazz, who frequently has frequent
flyer miles, gift cards and low roller kind of bargains in Las Vegas.
Welcome back to Gambling with an Edge, Jimmy Jazz. Thanks Bob, Thanks
Richard. Is always a pleasure to be here, all right. So there's
one that's only good for a few more weeks, so let's talk about that
first. It has to do with Southwest Airlines, who've had lots of negative
publicity recently. Yeah, they did something rare though. They actually admittedly screwed
up and they needed to fix their situation. So that's almost unheard of in
the corporate You made the mistakes. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, we've
talked about Southwest a whole bunch of times on this show, and in general,
I think they're a very good airline and they have a very good frequent
flyer program, and to me, their companion fare is just the best deal
going. So what they did was they made it even easier for a limited
time, so you can apply for one credit card. Annual fee is sixty
nine dollars. Spend four thousand dollars in three months, and that will get
you thirty thousand miles plus companion fare till February twenty eighth of twenty twenty,
So basically you get companion fare for nine months to a year, depending on
how quickly you accomplished the spend for only opening up one credit card with you
know, not a tiny spend, but certainly a management amount of spend.
Thirty thousand miles should get you at least one ticket or something you want to
go in the US, and Southwest flies, so you'll get your ticket plus
a companion of your choice and you both fly basically nothing. So it's good
through March thirteenth. If people want to do this through a referral with me,
I can certainly do that. If you use my link for the please
make sure it's the same aims. Companies will not give their best offer.
I'm finding that to be less and less decay, so hopefully this will be
one of those cases where they offer you the best available promotion and the referral
bonus. The usual Chase rules apply. You can't have open more than five
credit card five or more credit cards in more months. You can't have this
particular credit card from Chase in those two years. So there's those little restrictions,
but those aren't any credit card you open. You know, if you
have a flight planned in twenty twenty three and it's someplace, Southwest flies is
a great way to do that flight. Very inexpensive. Oh wait, I
have a question about that. So, Jimmy, you just pay the the
yearly fee every year for the car. I do because what Southwest does.
It's a sixty nine dollars annual fee and they'll give you three thousand miles.
So I value miles at one point five cents. So let's like getting forty
five dollars. So the annual fee works out to be actually costing me what,
twenty four dollars out of pocket. I'm willing to pay that. Plus
they have some perks. Chase has some you know, some benefits here and
there. The points you earn are one to one for normal spend, so
to me, that's worth one point five percent. They have some deals for
dining and travel where they get you a little higher rate and if you use
the card to spend for stuff on Southwest Lane, food or services or whatever,
those I think every points per dollars spend to me as well worth it
to keep the annual card. If you want to do, you know,
a one year and done, I would recommend doing an almost two year and
done. Pay one and you're just grabbing the card for a year hit and
canceling. I think it'll give you some longevity in the credit card. But
you still even if you if you sign up again for the sixty nine,
of which you get so much back, you still keep free Companion Fair.
The Companion Fair is only good till February of twenty twenty four. You know,
usually Companion Fair you have to earn one hundred and thirty five thousand points
to get Companion Fair, so by flying that's a whole lot of flying or
a whole lot of spent. So they keep on making it easier to get
Companion Fair, and to me it's it's such a great deal. I don't
know why they do it this way, but they do it. I'm glad
they do. So the Companion Fair for this is kind of like an intro
for one year and at that point you can see if you like it or
not, and then if you want to do it the following year. There
are certainly ways to do that. Good And given their negative publicity, they
am incentive to do this. Maybe that's why they're doing it. This is
this is to me the best companion fair offer I've ever seen from them.
Yeah, if you're now Bonnie Knife fly places where South plus goes, and
so this is an excellent deal for us. I've not been playing the credit
card game, but um, I think I am now a buyer of this
one. All right, Well, if you need a referral, I know
somebody who has them. Oh well, good. I you sent a link
to Richard to post in the show notes. Is that is that? Does
that give you the referral? No, that's just a description. I will
I will send you a link that will show my ref And you want that,
send it to me because you'll have to send it to me. Yeah,
we'll do perfect. All right, let's talk about online gambling accounts funding
them with gift cards. Okay, So Ben MGM fifty dollars gift card,
the four dollar activation fee. So I looked on the back of the card
to go through all the rules and rags, and I noticed they will also
give you a ten dollar free bet, So a ten dollar free bet is
worth four to fifty about once you pay the juice on your wager, so
that takes down the activation fee fifty cents or so. That makes it a
pretty good play. You can get one percent back on almost any credit card.
It's a break even. The downside is it's only a fifty dollars gift
card. You're going to load any amount of money into her. So then
the second one I noticed was from Caesar's, which is up to one hundred
dollars gift card with a three dollar ninety five activation fee but nothing to offset
it. So I think I bought one of those just to see how it.
Then I noticed what I thought would be the best option, which was
straft Kings, which had one hundred dollars gift card with no activation fee.
So that this is good. I bought a couple of them. I downloaded
them. I saw the register to my accounts. It's great. I made
a bet just to make sure the funding. Actually I didn't do anything with
the account. I bought two more gift card did the same thing. I
wanted to make sure that it was repeatable and worked. And then I made
the mistake of actually withdrawing two hundred dollars because for the wagering I was going
to do, and they lacked my account. They told me I had committed
suspicious activity and to get it unlocked, I needed to send them a picture
on my face. I said, okay, I'll do that, so I
sent it to him and it came out blurry or not clear enough. I'd
like, three times, how do you get your face to hold your license?
I use my thing, but then they just said that's not good enough.
We need receipts from your purchases. So I don't know about you,
but I don't always keep receipts back three months purchase. I happen to have
one set. I had the gift card, the receipt, and there's a
little activation thing you get to in case there's any issues with the cards.
So I sent him a copy of all that. They said, okay,
that's good, but that's only for one of the gift cards, and I
said okay, So I sent them pictures of all four gift cards and they
said, you still don't have the receipts. So then I looked at my
online account with Kroger, and fortunately they actually keep all your receipts, so
it showed the purchases for the draft Kings gift cards. I sent them all
that in for me and they said, okay, well, now you have
to agree to our terms and conditions to use these. Turns out that to
use a gift card there was actually a spend where of it you have to
run the money through to make the funds withdrawble. So I finally went through
all of that, and after about three weeks of this, I finally got
my ankle. Now my fault one hundred percent for not reading all their terms
and conditions. It just didn't occur to me that I would need to have
any sort of restriction to a cash So I know they were talking about money
laundering and stolen but what's interesting is they didn't restrict the deposit. All they
restricted wasn't so it seems like they're concerned about money laundering if it comes out
of their pocket and not. So that was a frustrating deal, but a
good learning experience. So you know, when you first said this, I
was thinking, Wow, this would be a great way to churn. But
now it sounds like it is not going to be a good way to churn.
Well, I mean if they were offering thousand dollars cards then maybe,
But yeah, I'm sure if you bought five thousand worth of gift cards and
deposited them all, it could take you months to get money out of them.
And I think your credit card company might say, hey, we notice
you go to your store and you buy a thousand. They might have an
issue. So then our local casino, which is now used to be Greektown,
is now Hollywood Greek. They started a promotion or actually allowed you to
fund your gambling account through their app to where I could load money from a
credit card into the app, plug my phone into the slot machine, and
transfer them from the app to the slot machine. I thought, okay,
this has got possibilities too, So Hayley Marie gave it a test run and
deposited fifty dollars. We'll no cash fee. We're getting there. Oh okay,
so no cash fee from the credit card, but Hollywood charges a ten
dollars per transaction fee. Oh yeah, but the first time they waive that,
they give you the ten dollars back, and it also gets you a
bonus on their drives. They have these drawings once a week for people fifty
and over, and I think the price is like one hundred and fifty bucks.
But if you have the app and you have money loaded in it,
they give you an extra hundred and fifty so there is sub benefit. But
it wasn't the play I thought it would be. I would say the best
play is if you're going to sign up for a DraftKings account, I would
do whatever the max is on their free bet if a thousand or two thousand,
I'm not even sure what I would do that with the gift cards,
and that would get you half of the spend if it's two thousand on your
Chase credit card we talked about above, so you would fund your account,
get the little bit of whatever you earn from your credit card, and also
clear half of years. I think that's the only real plum as far as
an ongoing deal for loading your account. Who knows, maybe in the future
they'll up the limits reduce the fees. That was my experience with funding online
accounts in Michigan, and for those people who don't live in Michigan, disinformation
is largely irrelevant. For well, I wouldn't say that, I wouldn't say
that at all. I mean it's been MGM and DraftKings and Caesar's and there
may be very similar kinds of things in other states that have legal online gambling.
So yeah, I cannot believe it's a Michigan onlything. Investigating yeah,
absolutely, and especially I mean if you're a low roller and you want to
just fund the account and get a few points on your credit card, it's
certainly not. You have to buy the card and then rip the label off
the back and then it's a little bit of work. You know, if
that's worth it for maybe you get five percent spend with Hayley, Marie and
I we have a deal with Kroger and gift cards that they're worth basically twenty
percent to me through the store. It's for me, it's still probably worth
it. I will be hesitant, but it's got possibilities and one of those
things that should be monitored. Well. Also, you really don't play online.
But for people who actually bet sports or whatever, I mean, usually
they're betting a lot more money than this. But you know, for somebody
who actually does want to run the money through, you know, it sounds
like there are possibilities there. Right, I don't bet sports much. I
do some of the online casino, the bonuses and the hustling. Actually,
Hollywood come directize this promo now where if I deposit five hundred dollars on gambling
account at the cage, they give me one hundred dollars in free play bar
stools at So I've been doing that once a week for the last year.
So I run some money through there. Like I said, I think it's
a good play. Possibly for it'll get a little bit better. But I
mean if they really if they opened it up and said you can buy a
gift card dollars and there was no activation fee over advantage, that you think,
I think that might be an easy way to do spin, that's for
sure. Yeah. Now you mentioned you do referrals, So how does this
So referral means you get paid to do it? What do you give us
if you get paid? What I was doing in the past was splitting the
what I call the cash value the referral. So I send you a referral
link for a Chase card. Chase gives me points we might value them at
depending a piece. I would send you a check for one hundred dollars or
half of that. I thought you valued them at one point five, But
that's that's if you use them for the airfare. I do it for the
cash value. But like if you go to the Point Sky or a Million
Mile Secrets or any of those sites, nobody I've ever seen splits the referral
bonus accept or gives you anything for um. Curious thing happened though. Two
things. One started doing refer for business cards, which they hadn't done,
and the value is two hundred and fifty dollars on it, So that's that's
a positive. The downside is we got a letter from Chase and at ten
ninety nine for a thousand dollars and we did a little investigating and looked at
So that's the downside. So I have revised my limit split where you get
a third, I get a third between the IRS and my local government.
They get a third. That's my new split for now. I don't know
if they've actually done this in the past. This is something I've had any
significant of referrals. I don't know if every company does it. I'll start
doing it for lower than six hundred dollars limits. But another another development that
makes the referrals of less valuable than they were, but still all right.
You have a comment on credit cards versus and slot clubs and some connected somehow.
Yes, so I know various slot clubs do status match, Harris being
one of them who used to or Caesar's. Also with Chase World of Hyatt
credit card, I got Pearl status at MGM. So it'd be cool if
there was some place where I could see all the different I might talk to
mister Curtis at the Las Vegas Advisor and to be interested in making as part
of his newsletter or website. But it'd be great if I could go there
and say, yeah, I have this level card, noire, remember at
what will that get me at Caesar's? And then some of the times are
a little copper. You have a credit card that gets you hotel status status
gets you slack club status. I've heard a few of those deals before.
The reason I mentioned that, Like I said, it might be something worthwhile
and it would certainly fit into the Las Vegas Advisor's mission to be all end
all floor feature. If it's doable, Yeah, I can see a lot
of desire for that. I think a lot of people would love to have
that a site that would give you that information. Yeah, the casino slot
clubs stink about telling you what's going on, either because they don't know where,
they don't care, I'm not sure which, but try and get the
information out of the booth. Exercising freshman. All right, you play at
the Four Queens in downtown Las Vegas. I do they You're You're welcome.
They recently merged their slot club with Ben Yet, how have things changed?
Well, we were I think there's two levels. I think it's like a
diamond and a double diamond. So we were consistently three hundred to four hundred
free play, maybe one hundred dollars in food. My last mailer one hundred
dollars in no food credit. But still the rumor. What's interesting is Haley
Marie still got the four but she tends to play not the best end.
We'll play the slots. So maybe that had something who plays pretty well,
but all his offer was so I'm thinking only the best game they are.
Again, you'd be hard to get any the infirmable that says that based on
my March mailer versus my February, they would definitely decrease the attractive myth or
best place. Well, I'm going to push back on that a little bit,
for they've actually taken out quite a few of the best machines. But
the mailers varied month to month, and so there will be times where it's
not clear like your last year, your April versus your May, versus your
June versus your July. They were likely all different and it's not always clear.
Why So, basing the fact that, yes, our mailers went down
in March, but we'll see what they are in April, We'll see what
they are in May, it is still it is still an excellent low roll
or play. I'll agree with that. What I'm basing that our last trip
was November and then December, January, and February offers were all similar,
and the March off decreased. For a friend, but that my wife and
I have a buddy in the Midwest, the sharpest of anybody, and he
emailed me probably a week ago and said, hey, guess what, And
sure enough, miler and his March mailer were significant. I hope you're right,
Bob, but I think there they've got some criteria downgrade. And yeah,
and especially for those people who are getting mailers separate mailers from Binions and
Four Queens and are now getting one mailer for the two places. So that
is another way I never played as Binions for me, for my buddy or
Haley Marie. We'll see. Four Queens is still a great place. The
clientele in the area is less pretty than it used to be. The basic
Hugos, the group of I'm not eliminating them, the rotation, it's it
won't be a reason for a trip anymore. In addition, another reason that
the soul reason. I mean previously I thought, you know, they were
pretty generous, and I don't think that'll be the king. Yeah, they
still have dollar ten seven with a point one seven club and a point three
months comps. It's hard to find a local casino in Las Vegas or anywhere
where it has that generous of an offer. Oh, I agree with that
one, all right. You've been getting sticky buttons on Bonus Streak Ultimate X.
Yeah, and this is one of those lessons learned and a little bit
on. How So, one of my local casinos has this game, and
for better or worse, I play it. I mean, I fully admitted
I don't know the strategy for pick up some loose multiple play it because it's
actually what are the for me, the most fun games to play. So
I was playing one time after a couple multiplayers on this straight well this is
really cool. So I did the touchscreen and I swiped across the hold of
them all and then hit the deal button. So I think the fourth card
didn't know in Bonus Streak, get a huge error costs you not only and
the multiplication of the most it's a pretty expensive mistake. So I called.
I called the suit over and she came at what happened and I explained it.
She said, I'm gonna review the film, which surprised me, and
I'm not sure I completely believe it. But she was on the phone for
a while and came back and said, Nope, that wasn't a mistake.
That was not going to pay you. And I asked, could I see
what you saw? And she said, and I was playing while she was
still there on the phone, your finger across all the cards. And she
said, well, that's not a machine mistake, that's your mistake. And
she said the only way she would pay for the is if I held all
the it showed them all and then between the time did I do that and
hit the deal draw? So this particular casino takes a very very narrow view
of what a machine error. The lesson learned is, if you're Hustle and
Bonus Street, you're not playing a lot of play slow, take a look
at the machine. And the other thing is is even if yeah, that
was a machine problem or the touchscreen to reinstate, the hand is almost in
poland Bonus Street multiplication. So even if she said, okay, you head,
you're straight, I'll give you that doesn't correct for the most nor get
me back to the previous state. Lesson learned is if you play those games
and the machines aren't in good shape, be very very if you make a
listen. Yeah, and so after you learned that sliding your finger across doesn't
work on that machine, why did you continue to do it? To show
her? I wanted to I did it, and I would stop and I
would look at it. I wanted to show her that that action didn't result
in Holy, I don't do that anymore. I sit there and I play
one finger on one very slowly. Well, I play a fat but I
give it a second before I hit the button. I think I give it
more than a second on these games now, because like I said, if
you if you're playing that and you're just going for the mind, you're going
to play five hands or it it takes you ten seconds for a hand instead
of three seconds or two seconds, it's really noping well worthy. All right,
let's move on. Let's talk about safety deposit box. All right.
So I know you've been a pretty big proponent of them, and you've mentioned
on a couple of different shows, And I think, what is that that's
supposed to put and you're not supposed to put valuables in this? So I
would say I think a lot of people do both of those. And if
you read your contract a little bit, if something happens and the bank actually
gets robbed, some outbreaks into boxes and steals all your you don't have a
lot of room. And that's granted a very what's the warm is the bank
merges or the branch closes and they have to somehow transfer that those assets to
a different location or a different company. So you have to rely to make
the trainer work secure your ask. They usually tell you you usually know bank
isn't. So I would suggest if that's the case, get everything out of
your safety pos close it down again, you don't have a whole lot of
recourse if that's I think that's a highly, highly unlikely scenario. I mean,
I can't remember the last time I heard of a bank safety deposit box
being robbed. Not robbed, but the second one is the more common one.
Yeah, yeah, And especially for people who have boxes around the country
and cities they don't visit often, that can be a problem. Also,
I've mentioned on the show before that I know somebody who the bank closed their
accounts and told them they didn't want them as a customer anymore because they were
going in and out of their safety deposit box too often. And the bank
assumed it meant that they were keeping cash in there, So that's something to
be aware of as well. That might be the official reason, but my
guess is the bank really doesn't make any money on a safety deposit. It's
a lot of maintenance and procedure, and every time you come in they come
over and assist you. I think it's just a manpower. I really don't
want you in there once a week looking at it because it takes one of
their employees away from doing something else. I think that's more of the reason
why they want want to do it, and at least in my area,
finding a safetypoxit is getting tough. A lot of branches don't have them,
and it's a money deal. Well for casino game, there's many most well
many poker rooms have safety deposit box and they're specifically so that players can keep
their chips and cash in there between sessions in the casino. So this is
a very common thing for poker rooms to have. And I don't know what
the rules are about if that's if that casino is held up, but this
is what players use them for. They put their chips in there, they
put their money in there, right, But it's not a government backed FDIC
regulated bank, it's the casino, so I think the rules are a little
bit different. All I'm saying though, is if you have a safe deposit
box or your bank merges, grab your stuff out and potentially be adding.
Okay, but if you're not keeping money or valuables in there, what are
what are you supposed to keep in your safety depom I guess your will,
your trust, list of passwords, stuff like that into your house. Yeah,
yeah, that's right. Stuff Some people keep their birth certificates. All
right, Frank B was on the show a week or two ago talk and
one of the things we talked about is casino's resetting slot or video poker machines,
And you came across this on Bonus Dreek Ultimate X. You know,
when I go looking for a play, I'll cycle through all the combinations,
and I won't say frequently, probably at least fifteen. I've seen the hand
three, four or five, six of spades and hearts as the hand played
in that order. Doubt yeah, in that exact order, in that exact
suit. So I doubt that the players have left it that particular hand that
many. So I was wondering if that's a default the machine or the machine
pop to reboot, and more to my concern is whether that's the way wipe
out balling the machine and then it goes to bad. So I know I've
seen that a lot of time. If you have any insight, well,
I have seen. I don't check out that's not one of the machines I
I vulture, but I've definitely seen something similar on regular Ultimax machine. There
it's two, three, four, five suited of spades, and I forget
the fifth card, and definitely one particular because I see that again and again
and so it's so after a while I get the message this is not a
good thing to be. They're obviously checking the machine, so I mean to
me, that should be illegal for them to wipe out them. It seems
like you're changing the base play of the game, and I'm sure they'll have
an argument against that, but that just seemed pretty much blatant cheating. But
yeah, it is. It is. You're altering the you know, the
random nature of the game. And blackjack players have had this argument for forty
years or whatever, that preferential shuffling, which is essentially the same thing when
the dealers are you know, counting and whenever the deck goes positive, they
decide to shuffle. You know, they've been doing that forever. And yeah,
it is cheating, but it's cheating that the gaming control board allows.
So I don't know what corrective action you can take. I guess you could
refuse to go to casinos that do that. Then again, you're going to
colte the game anyway. It sounds like it's a little little bit of cost
of doing business. Yeah, bringing it to their attention, showing that you're
aware of all this and checking it is not a smart move. I'll just
tell him at three to four or five six nine, not my lucky hand.
I'll have bad luck good luck with that one, and then you won't
have to worry about whether or not you're going to frequent that casino anymore.
All Right, we're taking a break from Jimmy Jazz. We'll be back.
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at local casinos when dining, what do you have for us here? You
know a lot of the casinos have the self syruption available, and our local
casinos have a food court, so I can either grab a beverage floor and
walk over to give them four dollars in cons saying be average. So we
choose the first. You know, it's not a fortune, but I mean
I would rather I had the in comps a year. The casino have it,
and it's not really that hard to do. Now. Tied into this,
my local for the first time is giving you one to one free play
for your cop dot, which they've never currently. If I give them give
me one dollar in hand on one couple days and much they're giving you one
dollar for one dollar, which I'm not sure they understand what they're doing going
to be giving away a troit realized that that's their issue. The significance to
me, though, is that it's going to affect how I play a little
bit. Do some of the advantage slap play. Say, for example,
you have a play number that's thirty two on a given machine, and previously
you're getting point two in cash back one point the one point three percent in
cop point six. With this promotion, you're getting the full one point.
Now you're getting one. So maybe instead of playing that number if you're playing
numbers thirty thirty, so it gives you a little more outability on what you
can play and also between and when I can gain those at one to one
or the gift choppery. So I have one buddy who's a local hustler and
he's probably got fifteen thousand, so that's going to be a significant chunk of
cash for him. And based on some other folks I've seen, that's not
so. I think on this particular date they're going to begin. Their bottom
line doesn't look so good for March, so they're not there's no limit you
can you can cash what you have. I didn't I read the roles real
quick. It just said one to one comps for I'm guessing it's going to
come out to be one hundred dollars per day or something of that nature.
But well, i'll take a look at I'll jump you note. But whatever
it is I would try to do as much as possible on the first day
because it may not last. Well, they're doing two to one on a
couple of days and then one to one the last day. I think it's
Wednesdays in March. The first three time you can do two to one and
the last time it's well, I don't see why anybody would do the two
to heart unless you're like out of around on that last day. But I've
seen enough silly things happening casino. It's probably happened so well. And more
than that, depending on when it starts, you know, might start at
midnight the night before, might start at three am or six am, depending
on the casino day is the smart play is to do it when it starts.
Absolutely, it could easily be gone in an hour after it starts.
Well, Hailey, Marie and I have you know, a couple hundred dollars,
maybe maybe five hundred dollars. It's a good play. But it's not
like my buddy H's ten thousand dollars, right, and he's there every day
and all kinds of weird hours, So for him it should definitely for me,
it wouldn't be worth, you know, getting there four in the morning
a fairly amount of spade day. I'll leave it for the big hitters.
I'll take advantage of it, all right. You saw an interesting sign at
the Cosmopolitan. Actually, I saw a picture of a side of the Cosmopolitan.
One of the local hustlers came up to me and said, hey,
look at this, and he showed me a picture and it showed a slot
machine asmopolitan and I didn't get down the exact wording, but words the effect.
If you play this machine, this machine can be in a persistent state
where it has an advantage and there might be people milling about trying to get
you up. So yeah, and I looked online. I couldn't find any
other reference to it. But I talked to another local hustle or buddy and
he said, yeah, he's he's heard or seeing the same. I'll do
a little more digging for that one. I sounds like they are, at
least at Cosmo, getting a little more hustlers now are they part of the
MJAM system yet they were going to be? I don't know. Has that
merger taken place that I don't because if it is part of the MJAM system,
then you would think that all the properties would have the same kind of
sign. You would think well. And also, wasn't MGM the first to
start backing people off of slot machine? I know I heard stories about back
off MGM New York, New York miagege longer MGM was a while back.
So it's it's hard to find a casino that's faster than the Elk Cortez at
that you might right. Um back to a subject we were talking about five
minutes ago, on getting your your beverage at beverage machines instead of the food
court that actually can work at UM with higher end beverages wines. There are
casinos where they have a decent wine selection at the bars for players of certain
status, and so you can get a you know, a healthy poor for
a five dollar tip and take that into their nice restaurants with you for the
for a glass of wine that would cost twenty or twenty five dollars in the
restaurant, the bartenders in these special lounges will give you a healthy poor for
a modest amount. It's the same kind of idea. We went to Ondiamo
while I was meeting a buddy there and he actually walked in with the gina
entirely plastic cup and sat down where to the waiter came over a nice glass
is Yeah, Dyamo is in the d in which is a circum system in
UM in downtown Las Vegas. All right, we want to thank you Jimmy
interesting ideas. As always, at the end of our show, we have
a recommended set. Earlier in the day I asked Richard if he had one,
and he said he didn't. Has that changed, Nope, hasn't changed.
I got nothing this uh huh, Well all right, so then I
will do one for those of you who are interested in storytelling, are listening
to storytelling, and are planning to be in Las Vegas on Saturday, March
eleventh, seven pm. There's a story slam with two of the people who
are my favorite storytellers. Ever, one is Richard and the other is me,
although the last is supposed to be a joke. One of the other
storytellers is one you would not have heard of, Dorothy Delhi, who is
also an excellent storyteller and well worth listening to. But that's not a name
that most of you would have heard of. The topic will be first response.
At least a few of the stories are not really closely related to the
topic. It'll it'll cost you a dollar to get in, well at least
a dollar. It's pay what you can, pay what you want. Yeah,
they said, if anybody wants to pay one hundred thousand dollars, they
will accept it. So, so although it's a nonprofit, it's an arts
center. So you know, if you don't have to just pay a dollar,
it would be nice to pay what you think is reasonable. Yeah.
Now my story is true, and it surrounds things happening in nineteen fifty four
when I was seven years old. Some people said I was a real stinker
back then, which I'm sure our listeners would find hard to believe. Jimmy,
do you have a recommended for our listeners? They do a while back.
There's something called a wonder wallet. It's basically a little bigger than a
typical wall. What it has is these plastic inserts that will a bunch of
credit card and they make different sizes. You can get the hold from eight
credit cards to sixty four. Now, the way they do that is they
double up on each slot. So I bought one of the sixty four slot
ones and I will use it only for singles. I'll be able to place
thirty two cards in there. So I carry about ten credit mental license,
health cards, some other stuff. So for me, it's an easy way
organize it, keep it ham. It actually fits in pretty much the pants
I wear. It's if I wear a dress pants. It's and I have
a button on the career pocket. Sometimes I can't button dead button the sideset.
It worked pretty well for me. Wonder wallets, I guess aren't manufactured,
but they're still for sale. You can get them on an or eBay
or fifteen bucks. And the inserts though is curious though, so the sixty
four card inserts ten dollars a lot for fifteen it's kind of kind of funny
on the pricing. But I talked to the guy who are used to own
it. The city doesn't manufacture. He provides the inserts as a service,
so it's not really a moneymaker for him, and he's gone on to me
it's a very convenient way to organize credit cards. You could actually dual wallet,
have slack club cards and you're I find it very useful, always looking
for better organized. Very good. All right, thank you, Jimmy,
thank you Richard. Go out and hit lots of royal flushes, everybody.
Good day,